[PATCH] mtd: prepare place for BCMA NAND flash driver(s)

Artem Bityutskiy dedekind1 at gmail.com
Tue Sep 11 07:02:44 EDT 2012


On Tue, 2012-09-11 at 12:45 +0200, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> 2012/9/11 Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1 at gmail.com>:
> > On Sun, 2012-09-09 at 16:32 +0200, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> >> BCMA bus can contain NAND flash memory, it's registered in system as
> >> platform device. This adds required hooks and place for controler
> >> specific drivers.
> >> At this point it doesn't work yet, so it's marked as BROKEN.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5 at gmail.com>
> >
> > Why should it be merged upstream as BROKEN and without
> > controller-specific drivers?
> 
> Regarding question about BROKEN: because they will start building
> after meeting changes coming from net tree during merge window. Right
> now that driver doesn't compile :(

Usually it is solved by pulling the tree we depend on, but we need a
permanent branch for this, which will not be re-based.

-- 
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy
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